Sang Yup Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Professor Sang Yup Lee is Distinguished Professor at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST, Korea. He is currently Dean of the College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Director of BioProcess Engineering Research Center, Director of Bioinformatics Research Center and Director of Center for Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology. His research interests are on metabolic engineering of microorganisms by integrating systems biology and synthetic biology with bioprocess as a whole. He has published more than 270 journal papers, 39 books/book chapters, and is holding 300 patents registered/applied. He received numerous awards including the First Young Scientist’s Award from the President of Korea, Elmer Gaden Award, and many others, including most recent Merck Metabolic Engineering Award. He is a Fellow of Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and Junior Fellow of National Academy of Engineering of Korea, Fellow of AAAS, and Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology. He is currently serving Editor-in-Chief of Biotechnology Journal, Associate Editor and editorial board member of many biotechnology journals.